I just rediscovered #952411 which I filed on 23 Feb 2020. Here's an update.
This "ScrollToTextFragment" feature seems to have been added.
Currently on 115.0.5790.98-1~deb11u1 if I go to the following example
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cat&oldid=916388819#:~:text=Claws-,Like%20almost,the%20Felidae%2C,-cats
it does scroll to the targeted text and highlight it. That example is
taken from the draft of the spec at
https://github.com/WICG/scroll-to-text-fragment
Here is a simplified example:
https://www.debian.org/#:~:text=Additional-,information,Debian,-Community
It's also easy to generate similar by selecting some text on a page,
right-click and "Copy link to highlight".
Notes:
* these URLs seem to do nothing on current firefox-esr
* it looks like Brave disabled it by default
* maybe going into HTML? https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/8282
Here is the upstream spec issue discussing the privacy implications of this
https://github.com/WICG/scroll-to-text-fragment/issues/76
and discussion about creating ways to disable
https://github.com/WICG/scroll-to-text-fragment/issues/122
Since there is currently no easy way to disable, this lead to someone
making an extension to disable. "disable-google-search-text-highlights"
I have not attempted to determine if the privacy concerns have been
addressed or the level of potential threat, someone more familiar with
this area should do that.
Thanks,
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Matt Taggart
m...@lackof.org
